Category: Knowledge Management

Tech once used to make homes more sustainable has fresh applications in making structures resistant to hurricanes, hail, blackouts, flooding, wildfires, and other disasters

Source: New Tech Tries to Catastrophe-Proof Your Home  – WSJ

 

We all know they’re insufferable, but they’re also making the world worse.

Source: The Unfettered Selfishness of Digital Nomads

The digitization of healthcare information was supposed to make it all so easy. It hasn’t yet, but it’s getting there.

Source: Medical Records Are a Mess. Here’s How Technology Can Help Make Sense of Them. – WSJ

From quirky designs to odd floor plans, these outside-the-box homebuilding ideas could bring down real-estate prices.

Source: Cure for America’s High Real Estate Prices: Build More Weird Homes – Business Insider

The eugenics movement is taking center stage in the U.S. — both in Trump’s rhetoric, and through a rise in race science.

Source: Eugenics movement on rise in political rhetoric, academic literature

How one company improved employee retention and engagement by rethinking its in-office model.

Source: A hybrid future: Organic Valley’s DIY work approach – Fast Company

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Dressel was born in Berlin but spent four decades living and working in the US. As the election looms, he talks us through his new book capturing a nation in crisis

Source: ‘Things are truly scary’: the divided states of America – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

Source: New M4 Mac mini: Apple still excels at building the best computers

 

They don’t want to talk about how President Biden’s policies have created an EV-manufacturing boom.

Source: Democrats Are Treating a Big Win as a Liability

‘The window for proactive risk prevention is closing fast,’ the company says. Here’s why.

Source: Anthropic warns of AI catastrophe if governments don’t regulate in 18 months